Hi Walter,

What are the issues with ODBC?

Is the ActiveX control the way to go when building it into a framework?

I'm making the move to Crystal Reports and know you have alot of experience with it.

>Absolutely, some points:
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>- You can nicely integrate it in your VFP applications.
>- Preview: 25 - 400 % zoom.
>- Make your own toolbar for navigating your preview
>- Export to Word, Excell, RTF, HTML, and others
>- Make modeless previews
>- Reports in Reports (subreports)
>- Much control over formatting.
>- In version 8, you even can make your own reportwriter.
>
>
>Less good points:
>- Cannot report on general fields (like pictures)
>- Does not support VFP tables natively: use FOX2X tables (prefferable) or ODBC.
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>Walter,